Under the project, 25,000 rational price shops in the state will be converted into Annapurna Bhandar so that people can get multi-brand consumer goods at reasonable prices

The initiative taken in Public-Private Partnership (PPP) mode will modernize the PDS or Public Distribution System and will provide better quality consumer goods, adding more than 160 goods would be available at reasonable prices.

For this, Rajasthan State Food and Civil Supplies Corporation and Future Consumer Enterprise Ltd signed an agreement with the Chief Minister Office.

“With this agreement, a new era of PPP model started in the history of India’s Public Distribution System”, a release quoting Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje said.

Annapurna Bhandar Yojna would strengthen government’s effort in bringing about a positive change and improving the daily lives of the people of Rajasthan, she said.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje initiated the first of its kind scheme in the country called Annapurna Bhandar Yojana. This scheme launched in association with Rajasthan State Food & Civil Supplies Corporation and Future Consumer Enterprise Ltd. It is a public-private partnership (PPP) scheme for providing multi-brand products of daily consumption at fair price shops (FPS).

Source: sikar.rajasthan.gov.in

Union Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore said that the initiative will also benefit unemployed youths. Speaking about Raje’s recent visit to New Delhi, Rathore said, the Chief Minister was trying to get maximum assistance from the Centre for the development of Rajasthan

About the initiative:

Under this public-private partnership (PPP) scheme; Public Distribution System would be modernized by providing better quality multi-brand consumer goods at competitive prices to the general public through fair price shops (FPS).

The state government has aimed to strengthen efforts to make positive change and bettering the daily lives of the people of Rajasthan.

Chief Minister, Vasundhara Raje said that Annapurna Bhandar stores act as malls for the villages of Rajasthan

It can become India’s biggest entrepreneurship drive with 5,000 FPS dealers turning into entrepreneurs with Annapurna Bhandar.

The government started this scheme from a store at Tamatia village in Dungarpur district where ration shop, small bank, khaad-beej and grocery products were being made available at one place.

In the first phase, 5,000 fair price shops(FPS) in which 1,000 each at Jaipur, Jodhpur and Udaipur division while 500 each in rest of the divisions converted into Annapurna Bhandars by March 2016. In the next three years, 25,000 fair price shops will be converted into Annapurna Bhandars.

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Features of the Scheme:

Under this public-private partnership (PPP) scheme, Public Distribution System would be modernized by providing better quality multi-brand consumer goods at competitive prices to the general public through fair price shops( FPS)